Host T-Ray and co-host Joe talk in detail about the six games this past week (@ Marines, @ Fighters). We choose our player of the week, and then are joined by Christian from Graveyard Baseball and Patrick from NPB Tracker to talk about our upcoming PL opponents – Orix Buffaloes and Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. Finally, we hear from our fantasy…
The good news is that the Tigers have finished playing in Pacific League parks for another year. The bad news is that they had their worst week of the season and looked terrible in doing so. This series was no different. Other than being able to squeeze out a victory in the middle game. Read…
After practically gift-wrapping the final game of the Lions series at home (bringing the Tigers record at Koshien this season to an atrocious 11-14-1), the Tigers hit the road for two straight series against two of the tougher Pacific League teams. The first of these would be held in Chiba against the Lotte Marines at…
Let us consider the case of two players on the Hanshin Tigers. Check the table below as you trek with me through some thoughts: GP AVG HR RBI PA AB R H 2B 3B Total Bases SB S SF BB HBP K SLG OBP Player A 59 .248 5 24 257 214 25 53 8…
We’re a week into June. The draft took place almost exactly two months ago, two weeks into the season. (Click here to see the order in which players got drafted, as well as the rules.) Some players have settled in. Hot starters are cooling off. Cold starters are heating up. But the ladder between the…
Host T-Ray and co-host Joe talk in detail about the six games this past week (@ Eagles, vs. Lions). We choose our players of the week, hitter & pitcher of the month, and then are joined by Christian from Graveyard Baseball and Patrick from NPB Tracker to talk about our upcoming PL opponents – Chiba Lotte Marines and Hokkaido…
We take two steps forward and one step back. One step forward and then two back. The Hanshin Tigers have been within a game of .500 since May 11 – an incredible stretch in which there has been no winning or losing streak longer than two games. After nine games on the road, the team came…
Last season, the Hanshin Tigers “won” the interleague season… in that they took home the best record of any of the Central League teams. Of course, in a mini-season dominated by Pacific League teams, there was no hope for them to win it outright, but a 10-8 record (including a stellar 8-1 at home) was…
I got notice from one John Gunning (who covers sumo in English in Japan and does it quite well) that he wanted to start to promote sports in Japan to more of a global audience. So he asked me if he could interview me and post the video to his YouTube channel. Of course I…